Overview
Liechtenstein sites run most secondary barriers below global rates
| Value | |
|---|---|
| WAF | 94.3% |
| Antibot | 15% |
| CAPTCHA | 21.8% |
| JavaScript | 41.2% |
| Rate Limiting | 11.1% |
| TLS | 14.3% |
WAF adoption (94.3%) is slightly above the 93.1% global average. Antibot (15.0%) and TLS (14.3%) are notably below global benchmarks of 20.2% and 17.7% respectively. CAPTCHA (21.8%) and JavaScript (41.2%) are close to global rates.
Barrier Landscape
JavaScript tops Liechtenstein's active secondary barriers
| Value | |
|---|---|
| WAF | 94.3% |
| Antibot | 15% |
| CAPTCHA | 21.8% |
| JavaScript | 41.2% |
| Rate Limiting | 11.1% |
| TLS | 14.3% |
| Has robots.txt | 82.3% |
| Blocks AI crawlers | 15% |
WAF adoption stands at 94.3%. Among secondary barriers, JavaScript leads at 41.2%, followed by CAPTCHA at 21.8%. Antibot (15.0%) and TLS (14.3%) are the lowest secondary rates.
Most Liechtenstein sites carry two barriers
| % of sites | |
|---|---|
| 0 barriers | 3.4% |
| 1 barrier | 33.8% |
| 2 barriers | 36.4% |
| 3 barriers | 17.7% |
| 4 barriers | 5.6% |
| 5 barriers | 2.8% |
| 6 barriers | 0.3% |
3.4% of sites carry no barriers. Two barriers is the most common count at 36.4% of sites. Three or more barriers apply to 26.4% of the total.
Most Liechtenstein sites are Simple to access
| Mean recommended tier | |
|---|---|
| All sites | 1.6 |
The median recommended retrieval tier is 1, meaning over half of sites are accessible without JavaScript rendering. The mean tier is 1.59.
Nearly nine in ten Liechtenstein sites are Simple or Easy to access
| % of sites | |
|---|---|
| 1 - Simple | 55.4% |
| 2 - Easy | 33.3% |
| 3 - Moderate | 9% |
| 4 - Complex | 1.6% |
| 5 - Advanced | 0.8% |
Tier 1 and Tier 2 combined account for 88.7% of sites. Tier 3 applies to 9.0%, Tier 4 to 1.6%, and Tier 5 to 0.8%.
robots.txt
AI crawlers top Liechtenstein's robots.txt bot categories
| % of sites | |
|---|---|
| AI crawlers | 16.1% |
| SEO / search indexing | 13.8% |
| SEO audit tools | 14.3% |
| Commercial scrapers | 8.1% |
| Social / content scrapers | 6.9% |
| Archive / research crawlers | 6.1% |
| Monitoring / uptime bots | 0.4% |
Across all 899 Liechtenstein sites, 16.1% name at least one AI crawler. SEO audit tools follow at 14.3% and SEO/search indexing bots at 13.8%. Archive/research crawlers appear in 6.1% of files.
Uniform rules are Liechtenstein's most common robots.txt posture
| % of sites | |
|---|---|
| Uniform per-agent rules (no path mixing) | 43.6% |
| Path-level mixed rules for same agent | 33.7% |
| Allow-only (no disallow rules) | 2.1% |
| Mixed AI posture (block some, allow others) | 2.9% |
| Blanket Disallow: / | 2.7% |
17.7% of Liechtenstein sites have no robots.txt. Uniform per-agent rules are the leading posture at 43.6%, followed by path-level mixed rules at 33.7%. Blanket Disallow: / covers 2.7% and mixed-AI posture 2.9%.
GPTBot faces the most Disallow rules in Liechtenstein's robots.txt
| Disallowed | Allowed (whitelisted) | |
|---|---|---|
| GPTBot | 12.5% | 2.2% |
| CCBot | 8.6% | 1.1% |
| ClaudeBot | 9.7% | 1% |
| Google-Extended | 9% | 1.4% |
| Bytespider | 7.9% | 0.4% |
| meta-externalagent | 2.9% | 0.2% |
| ChatGPT-User | 7% | 2.2% |
| PerplexityBot | 7.7% | 1.9% |
| Applebot-Extended | 4.8% | 0.6% |
| OAI-SearchBot | 4.1% | 1.8% |
| anthropic-ai | 6.1% | 1.1% |
GPTBot carries a Disallow rule on 12.5% of all 899 Liechtenstein sites. GPTBot and ChatGPT-User each appear in an Allow rule on 2.2% of sites.
Three Liechtenstein sectors all name at least one bot to restrict
| % of sites | |
|---|---|
| Automotive | 100% |
| Design | 100% |
| Entertainment | 100% |
| Adult | 90% |
| Apparel & Fashion | 90% |
| Beauty & Cosmetics | 90% |
| Equipment & Supplies | 90% |
| Food & Beverages | 90% |
| General | 90% |
| Healthcare | 90% |
| Insurance | 90% |
| Mass Media | 90% |
| Newspapers | 90% |
| Online Services | 90% |
| Packaging | 90% |
Automotive, Design, and Entertainment each reach 100%: every site in those sectors names at least one bot to restrict in a Disallow rule. Eleven further sectors sit at 90%.
Liechtenstein's Automotive sites lead in explicitly allowing crawlers
| % of sites | |
|---|---|
| Automotive | 80% |
| Food & Beverages | 80% |
| Non-Profit | 80% |
| Publishing | 80% |
| Airlines | 70% |
| Design | 70% |
| Oil & Gas | 70% |
| Photography | 70% |
| Science | 70% |
| Travel & Tourism | 70% |
| Advertising & Mktg | 60% |
| Architecture | 60% |
| Construction | 60% |
| Healthcare | 60% |
| Hospitality | 60% |
Automotive leads by a narrow margin: 80% of sites in this industry explicitly allow at least one named crawler, reflecting commercial demand for indexing and aggregation. Food & Beverages follows at 80%.
Industry Patterns
Computer Hardware is Liechtenstein's hardest sector to access programmatically
| WAF | Antibot | CAPTCHA | JavaScript | Rate Limit | TLS | robots.txt | Blocks AI | Tier | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Computer Hardware | 90% | 20% | 10% | 40% | 40% | 20% | 80% | 0% | Tier 3 |
| Hospitality | 100% | 20% | 0% | 40% | 30% | 50% | 70% | 20% | Tier 3 |
| Apparel & Fashion | 90% | 20% | 20% | 60% | 30% | 50% | 90% | 10% | Tier 2 |
| Retail | 100% | 0% | 0% | 70% | 20% | 10% | 90% | 50% | Tier 2 |
| Human Resources | 100% | 30% | 20% | 60% | 10% | 10% | 80% | 10% | Tier 2 |
| Automotive | 100% | 10% | 20% | 30% | 20% | 30% | 100% | 0% | Tier 2 |
| Food & Beverages | 90% | 50% | 20% | 20% | 10% | 0% | 90% | 30% | Tier 2 |
| Real Estate | 100% | 10% | 10% | 60% | 40% | 20% | 70% | 30% | Tier 2 |
| Consumer Electronics | 80% | 20% | 20% | 50% | 40% | 30% | 70% | 10% | Tier 2 |
| Jewellery & Luxury | 100% | 20% | 10% | 60% | 30% | 20% | 70% | 20% | Tier 2 |
| Furniture | 100% | 40% | 40% | 40% | 30% | 20% | 70% | 10% | Tier 2 |
| Medical Devices | 100% | 0% | 20% | 50% | 10% | 0% | 90% | 10% | Tier 2 |
| Transport & Logistics | 70% | 30% | 10% | 30% | 10% | 20% | 80% | 10% | Tier 2 |
| Airlines | 90% | 20% | 0% | 70% | 10% | 30% | 80% | 40% | Tier 2 |
| Beauty & Cosmetics | 90% | 20% | 10% | 30% | 10% | 30% | 90% | 10% | Tier 2 |
Computer Hardware tops the hardest-sectors ranking with a mean tier of 2.65 and a median of 3. Apparel & Fashion follows at 2.50; Hospitality and Retail both share a mean of 2.40. A broad cluster from Consumer Electronics to Airlines spans mean tiers of 1.90–2.20.
Four Liechtenstein sectors share the most accessible tier floor
| WAF | Antibot | CAPTCHA | JavaScript | Rate Limit | TLS | robots.txt | Blocks AI | Tier | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Computers & Electronics | 100% | 30% | 30% | 40% | 10% | 20% | 80% | 0% | Tier 2 |
| Equipment & Supplies | 100% | 40% | 60% | 30% | 10% | 20% | 90% | 10% | Tier 2 |
| Mail & Delivery | 80% | 20% | 10% | 30% | 10% | 10% | 70% | 0% | Tier 2 |
| Publishing | 90% | 20% | 20% | 50% | 10% | 0% | 90% | 60% | Tier 2 |
| Reference | 80% | 40% | 20% | 40% | 10% | 10% | 80% | 20% | Tier 2 |
| Adult | 100% | 40% | 40% | 70% | 10% | 20% | 90% | 20% | Tier 2 |
| Banking | 100% | 10% | 30% | 30% | 10% | 0% | 80% | 0% | Tier 2 |
| Design | 100% | 30% | 30% | 30% | 30% | 30% | 100% | 40% | Tier 2 |
| Finance | 80% | 20% | 10% | 20% | 30% | 10% | 50% | 20% | Tier 2 |
| Libraries | 100% | 0% | 0% | 60% | 0% | 0% | 80% | 20% | Tier 2 |
| Telecom | 90% | 0% | 0% | 60% | 0% | 10% | 100% | 10% | Tier 2 |
| Construction | 90% | 0% | 20% | 40% | 20% | 0% | 80% | 20% | Tier 2 |
| Events | 80% | 0% | 0% | 70% | 20% | 0% | 70% | 0% | Tier 2 |
| Investment | 100% | 20% | 20% | 20% | 0% | 10% | 90% | 0% | Tier 2 |
| Music | 100% | 30% | 30% | 60% | 10% | 20% | 90% | 10% | Tier 2 |
Construction, Events, Investment, and Music all share the lowest mean tier of 1.70 among Liechtenstein sectors in this group.